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"People who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones," Harry
Bridges, longtime international
president of the International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union, declared
in a union newspaper column as he
took issue sharply with the clamor
begun by the U.S. administration
over the issueof "human rights" in
the USSR.
In his column, On the Beam,
published in the February 25
edition of the ILWU paper, The
Dispatcher and reprinted below,
Bridges looks at the human rights
issues from the workers' viewpoint
and from his own experience.
The column has special
relevance in light of the decision
last week by the U.S. State
Department to deny visas to the
Soviet trade officials who had been
invited as fraternal guests to at-tend
the ILWU international
convention. The reason? "They are
members of the Communist
Party," the department said.
"People who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones." t think the
full meaning of the proverb can be
applied to how the (U.S.) is acting
with respect to the so-call- ed
dissidents from the Soviet Union.
Judging from the reports in the
public media, it would appear that
the most important part of our
foreign policies in dealing with
other countries is this matter of
dissidents operating in or coming
from the USSR.
One thing I notice about the
Russian dissidents or defectors —
there's not a single working stiff
among them. They all seem to
have been treated pretty well by
their country in terms of
education, good jobs and homes.
And what comes through to me
from what-- 1 gather they want, and
of course what they are en-couraged
to publicly demand by
their supporters in this country, is
to have the Soviet Union, its form
of government, its economic and
social system, made over to more
closely resemble our way of life.
What bugs me is that our
government and our spokesmen on
foreign affairs, all the way up to
the president, in their seemingly
holier-than-thoihattitu- de toward
the USSR regarding the handful of
dissidents seem to accept without
questioning the notion that Soviet
dissidents are not working for
other countries or other political
regimes.
Here in the U.S. we have
Vladimir Bukovsky speaking in
Washington to the U.S. Com-mission
on Security and
Cooperation in Europe. What does
Bukovsky want the U.S. to do about
the political life, internal affairs
and government institutions of the
USSR? Why, he wants us to
demand that the Soviet Union
admit teams of American ob-servers
to inspect Soviet prisons,
prison camps, and hospitals. How
about that as a demand from us,
where U.S. foreign policy is one
whereour union can't even have an
official Soviet trade union
delegation come as observers and
fraternal delegates to our in-ternational
convention coming in
Seattle!
Another of Bukovsky's demands
is that there should be official
contacts and recognition between
"western groups" and such
Ukrainian, Lithuanian and other
nationalist groups which have
sprung up in the USSR.
Regarding such groups, our
HARRY BRIDGES challenges
memories should not be so short as
to not remember that when Hitler
and the Nazi war machine laun-ched
the invasion into the USSR,
slaughtered hundreds of thousands
of civilian men, women and
children, the Nazi butchers
received help from such reac-tionary
Lithuanian and Ukrainian
nationalist sources inside the
USSR. And while our spokesmen
are doing so much bellyaching
about how the Soviet dissidents are
treated inside their country, I don't
see why we, at least I mean some
of us who have kept track of such
things — should forget our own
government's sordid record when
it comes to dissidents — and I don't
mean war criminals.
How about the Smith Act trials of
about 20 years ago? Wasn't the
main charge against the members
of the U.S.A. Communist Party
officials and members hauled into
court, tried, and convicted of being
agents of Soviet Communism and
Moscow, seeking to overthrow our
government by force and violence?
And I remember the day in San
Francisco when the specially
appointed and imported Federal
prosecutor from Washington, D.C.,
F. Joseph "Jiggs" Donohue stood
up in the courtroom and urged that
I be tossed into jail — which I was
for three weeks — because as he
said at that perilous time, "not one
dissenting voice" could be allowed
to speak out in the U.S. against
what the country was doing. My
dissenting voice was urging a
ceasefire in Korea and proposing
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What comes through to me when
it comes to what these dissidents
really want is that their program is
one that calls for a return in the
USSR for the good old days when
the czars ruled that vast country,
when tens of millions of human
beings were serfs — a modern
name for slaves — and pogroms
and famines were regular oc-currences.
Sure, I known from my own
personal knowledge that there are
plenty of changes still to come
about in the USSR to better the life
of its people and given time those
changes will come along. After all,
the Russian revolution is only 60
years old, and 60 years historically
speaking, is little more than a
matter of hours.
But one thing is sure in the
USSR, and that is that changes are
coming about that will bring about
an end of two main evils facing the
people in our country, especially
the working people, and that is the
matter of unemployment and
growing inflation that are features
of the capitalist world, as well as
inadequate and expensive health
care for the people.
Yes, there are some causes for
dissension in the USSR, but the big
thing they have going for them
over there is the socialist social
system that affords the means to
overcome and remove the causes
of dissension, when such ills affect
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